I have signed up and all my travel plans are set to go to ZendCon08. This will be my first PHP conference and my first visit out to California. I’m pretty excited to meet and network with the PHP community and look forward to learning many new things. See you all on September 14th!
Many PHP developers get confused when using the comparison operators. Mainly weather to us two equal signs or three. It really is a simple concept when you understand what it does. The double equal sign (==) compares two data types which don’t have to be in the same type. So for example you can compare
$a = 1
$b = ‘1′
$a is a integer and $b is a string. That would return true under a double equal sign.
However, the triple equal sign (===) the data types must be the same on both sides of the operand. So… the above would return false since $a is a integer and $b is a string.
So just remember that double doesn’t matter on data types triple must be the same data type.
I was over at the AT&T store in the Reston Town Center on Saturday and was looking around at the BlackBerrys. I saw no advertisements yet for the BlackBerry Bold so I asked the salesman about it. He told me that the RIM salesman was just in talking to the store about it and that it should be hitting AT&T stores in a couple of days, maybe the beginning of the month. I however, will have to wait till it comes out at Verizon which should be a month or so after AT&T.
Last night on ABC News with Charlie Gibson they did a piece on Twitter.com. It was a pretty good piece but did they get it all wrong? They marketed the whole twitter service as a customer service platform. Yes it can be used as that since there are some companies that are responding to customer problems but I don’t think that 2% of the poople at using it that way. You can check out the online video of the piece here. It looks like ABC news doesn’t allow you to embed the video yet, sorry. What do you think about the clip?